House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.

A warmed-over jobs message — “I don't normally do this,” President Obama's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer wrote in the subject line of an e-mail blast to reporters Sunday night. — This was tantalizing. What would this top White House official be doing? Singing karaoke on the North Lawn?

REVEALED: The Obama election campaigner, 23, who ‘received illicit messages and had phone sex with Anthony Weiner’ a year after humiliated wife forgave him — Sydney Leathers, a liberal activist from Illinois, is allegedly the woman who revealed explicit images she received from Weiner

What's the Matter With North Carolina? — The state went from beacon of tolerance to bastion of voter suppression in a month. — North Carolina is proving itself to be the poster child for all that is wrong with modern American democracy and—with thanks to Moral Mondays—also highlighting all that may someday save it.

Republicans for Snowden — A left-right House coalition rushes to stop metadata collection. — Few things are more dangerous than Congress in heat, and so it is this week as a libertarian-left wing coalition in the House of Representatives is rushing to neuter one of the National Security Agency's antiterror surveillance programs.

Americans turn against Edward Snowden — The American people, who once defended Edward Snowden's leaks of sensitive intelligence information gathered by the U.S. government, are starting to turn against him. — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that a majority of Americans …

Postal Service looks to end at-your-door mail — If you're moving to a newly built house, say goodbye to mail delivery at your door. — And if some House Republicans get their way, all door-to-door mail delivery will go away. — The U.S. Postal Service is marching towards a more …

Mother of Golf Prodigy in Hazing Death Defied by FratPAC — Harrison Kowiak was 19 years old when he died after schoolmates pummeled him on a pitch-black field in Hickory, North Carolina. It was part of a fraternity hazing. — Determined to protect other students, Kowiak's mother Lianne devoted herself to fighting hazing.

7/24: A Look at the 2016 Presidential Contest — If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to announce a candidacy for the Presidency, she would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Clinton outdistances her closest potential opponent, Vice President Joe Biden …

Judge Orders $1 Million Returned to Exotic Dancer — A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer. — The money belongs to Tara Mishra …